There were the young people molested by priests (including at least one who said he was abused by the archbishop himself). They were victims.

There were the trusting parishioners who had predator-priests assigned to their communities by an archbishop who knew what those priests had already done. They were victims.

There were the donors who freely gave funds to support the Church, and only later learned that $450,000 of their money had been used by the archbishop as hush money. They were victims.

But Archbishop Weakland? No, he wasn't a victim. There were plenty of Catholics in Milwaukee with just cause for anger, and the archbishop wasn't one of them, either.

The moral of the story: If you don't want to be the victim of a bank robber, rob the bank yourself.

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